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• Podcast: Global chip shortage affects Apple and the iPhone

  29-07-2021 20:40
  
  The semiconductor shortage has wreaked havoc on manufacturers, and Apple will soon feel pinch. In the company's Q3 earnings call, chief executive Tim Cook said that supply constraints around "legacy nodes" will affect iPhone sales. These "legacy nodes" include chips for the display, ports and audio, not the A- and M-series processors that Apple designs for its devices. Macworld executive editor Michael Simon and Computerworld executive editor Ken Mingis discuss how the chip shortage will affect
  
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• How to give your phone an Android-12-inspired privacy upgrade

  29-07-2021 16:04
  
  Android 12 sure is an onion of an update, wouldn't ya say?Now, don't get me wrong: I'm not suggesting it's fragrant, likely to make you cry, or positively delicious when cooked in a stir-fry. (That'd be one heck of a piece of software!) I just mean that it has lots of layers to it, including some that are beneath the surface and impossible to see when you're only glancing from afar.Android 12 is full of changes both big and small, in fact — and while many of its most noticeable external e
  
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• Google reads the room, tells workers to get their COVID-19 shots

  29-07-2021 12:06
  
  Sundar Pichai, Google and Alphabet CEO, has had enough. Yesterday, he told his workforce and the world that "anyone coming to work on our campuses will need to be vaccinated." Period.Sure, most Google employees are bright enough to have already gotten a COVID-19 shot. Google doesn't hire dummies. As Pichai wrote: "It’s encouraging to see very high vaccination rates for our Google community in areas where vaccines are widely available. This is a big reason why we felt comfortable opening s
  
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• Don’t blame the track-and-trace app for the UK’s ‘pingdemic’

  29-07-2021 07:00
  
  Earlier this month, almost 700,000 people in England and Wales received notifications in just one week from the COVID-19 track-and-trace app that they should self-isolate. And soon thereafter, the ongoing coronavirus pandemic was being called a "pingdemic."The app uses Bluetooth technology to alert people if they’ve spent 15 minutes or more within two metres of someone who's tested positive for COVID-19. The steep rise in the number of notifications arose as the UK government moved t
  
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• Don't blame the track-and-trace app for the UK’s ‘pingdemic‘

  29-07-2021 07:00
  
  Earlier this month, more than 600,000 people in England received notifications in just one week from the COVID-19 track-and-trace app that they should self-isolate. And soon thereafter, the ongoing coronavirus pandemic was being called a "pingdemic."The app uses Bluetooth technology to alert people if they’ve spent 15 minutes or more within two metres of someone who's tested positive for COVID-19. The steep rise in the number of notifications arose as the UK government moved tow
  
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• Accelerating cloud adoption in financial services

  29-07-2021 06:38
  
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